1935 in France

Events from the year 1935 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Albert Lebrun
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• until 1 June: Pierre-Étienne Flandin
• 1 June-7 June: Fernand Bouisson
• starting 7 June: Pierre Laval

Events

• January – Foreign Minister Pierre Laval went to Rome to meet Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
• 7 January – Franco-Italian Agreement is signed in Rome in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
• 14 April – Stresa Front agreement is concluded between France, Britain and Italy.
• 2 May – Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance is concluded.
• December – Hoare–Laval Pact signed with Great Britain.

Sport

• 4 July – Tour de France begins.
• 28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Romain Maes of Belgium

Births

• 2 February – Jean-Louis Verdier, mathematician (died 1989)
• 12 March
• Jacques Benveniste, immunologist (died 2004)
• Paul John Marx, French-Papua Roman Catholic prelate (died 2018)
• 5 May – Bernard Pivot, journalist and television personality (died 2024)
• 7 May – Gérard Lefranc, fencer (died 2025)
• 1 June – Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, mathematician (died 2017).
• 15 June – Robert Lamartine, soccer player (died 1990)
• 21 June – Françoise Sagan, playwright, novelist and screenwriter (died 2004)
• 24 August – Christian Liger, French writer (died 2002)
• 18 September – Raymond Vautherin, French-Italian linguist, poet and playwright (died 2018)
• 25 September – Adrien Douady, mathematician (died 2006)
• 8 October – Albert Roux, chef (died 2021)
• 8 November – Alain Delon, actor (died 2024)
• 9 November – Claude Kahn, pianist (died 2023)
• 18 November – Alain Barrière, singer (died 2019)

Deaths

• 12 February – Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer (born 1846)
• 17 May – Paul Dukas, composer and teacher (born 1865)
• 3 July – André Citroën, automobile pioneer (born 1878)
• 12 July – Alfred Dreyfus, military officer, victim in the Dreyfus Affair (born 1859)
• 30 August – Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist (born 1873)
• 4 October – Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist (born 1849)
• 4 December – Charles Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913 (born 1850)
• 13 December – Victor Grignard, chemist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (born 1871)

See also

• List of French films of 1935

References